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rr a a etter es ec pe ec ee “LUME XIV. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, FER. 9, 1912 NUMBES 6 SS rr = 5 ‘ ; 8.5 . ‘ Monday, the Whole Nation; White and Black Will Pay Tribute to Humanities’ Truest Friend, Abraham Lincoln SSS” : lother wise, when cantiacted under such ~ a = = APiw A PETC LED Fifth Vice Pree, W, W. Snobe, Sac AMERICAN amines tom ie rexinst FT NCOLN THE EMLANCIPATOR |wekon SOCIAL ETHICS. the education of our glils, Mra, 1, Jd “Sixth” Vie Press Sanwuel Carey, oI Cattoll, the distinguished wife of . $$ $_$____.... Topeha, Kansas, oe, the governor of out own state, tne a BS, wpe a Mim, 8. Joe Brown, Prominent lowalsists that the ible should te the | of 01 8 peg tebe tae Woman, Delivers an Interesting fst book dn every house, and that, : - (yee ha, Kansas. Lecture Before the Hutetlectual Lime POX! tothe Bible should be read those alia ~ \ hee Judge A.C, Clark, Lawrence, Kan. provement Club—she ty Chairman pee yelled aa na ha _ 52 Oe bea: | ts Ee, Le Jue aloryy i * ‘i * d oy) Ps sah GC. Bre ik " of fowayFederation Colord Wonten ‘thee aie those high up in the eda: Pon waa NG 6 et To Cee ate ye | han Mune ee eee and Member Ways and Miany Na-feutional aides of che nation whe RRS DES si pe ete es ie ane ng Ie a fad | Prof, rd ‘Roundtree, Topeka, lionat Assoctation of Gulored Wo fttonsly advocate the tuactiag of this h ies a | ie: “ALY fy Se : ay eee . e American Social Ithies, presenting Tatellectual Improvement Club, Des Moin, lows, chairman Educational Committee lowa luet- ation ef Colored Women and member Ways and Means Committue Nation al Axsaclation of Colurad Wamen. Madam President, Officers und De- leguten to the IntueState Liteary Association. Ladies and gentlemen: 1 aswure you that it was with no Snatl dygice of timidity and without due appreciation of my own mengie ability that [ accepted the very jren- ervus intitation uf your progam committee to diseuss before this dis- tinguished acembly of scientists, Philosophers and stutesinen 50° pro- found u subject as that of Amencan naturally infer fiom the etymology, Social Etlucs, which ay one would has to do with the ethics or customs of the Americun people of the pres- ent day. ft Is however possible that the com- mittee who made this assignment {n- tended that the discussion should ave especial reference to the Negro or afront Amencan; but believing as I do that the Negro in America derives his social as well us his ichgious ethics from his Caucasian bother, [ shall not attempt to confine my 2¢- marks to any porticulue race or any branch of the Ameican people, but, a» in the very outset, I desire to uy that as life is more than meat and the body more than ratmert, 0 also ate the ethics or customs ot the hives we live infimtely more imports ant thas, the bodies ot houses in which we hy frum the influence which our lives reflect upon the Ives of others fy as Immortal ay our souls. “Hov carefully then we ought to Ine, With what religious fea. Whe such a etrict account must give, Tor our Dehavier here, firmly believe that this saqed troth should Te impressed upon the minds of the guls and boys of the present while the characters which are to de- termine the future conduct are in the process of formation, and as is often the ease, should not be deferred un-, til the age of matunty, when it can have hut httle or no influence upon their lives. That this is true not only among our own, but among all races in Am- erica, is evidenced by the fact that at every meeting of American moth- ers, local, state and national, the par- amount tupic of discussion seems to be the “waywardness of the girls and boy of the present generation.” | For Instance, at the recent meeting of the Iowa Congress of Mothers, the principal address was delivered by Mrs. S. K. Stevenson, who {fs the founder of u anclal settlement for white irl sat the seat of the State University of Iowa, and in it she says: “The faces of the young girls of to- day show onty too well the strains to which their bodies are being sub- jected by the practices of present day society.” Continuing, she dectures that a girt Is not strong enough to do her school work and at the same time be a mem- ber of the different clubs, and soro- rities and what not that are required | of a high achool gurl, She cannot | put brake under the strain. One proffesor had told her that the! greatest problem onnfronting duce jon today was the increased immor- | shty among high school girls and | hat this increase was largely among || 1ome where girl were brought up tal elievee that they are ae » believe that they are hemslve Enema they_are-e- taller etter Kh neighbor his | ame one mng the i: (3 4 yhich sels mine f the promisclous meeting of young i nen gndg wapen at depots and other! lege rages | as ag the habit r mae jegot Pur fav em fi x co a wn they know to be o! bl “wh { i: at: weg ‘ wa, a " s of but short duration, we are in-/? i Ansiag pthat marriage is a ¢ singed 43 we expert it to bent ee eee eee, ee ore See ‘first book In every house, und that, next tothe Bible shoud be mad those books which deal with self knows lige, technically callad suaclogy} and, here ate those high up in the edas feutional caices of the nation whe eliungly advocate the teaching of this subject in the publre achnals, by the proper authorities, instead of its bung learned by children from improper persons in iapropar Vaya ay ds often jthe case under our present system of cthice, | It seems, therefore, that the paras mount issue upan this question ia po longer the teaching of sexology ix nde Nivable, but rather, Sow shall it: be taught, | ‘The auth tities are almost unani- mous that the fathers and mothers are the Proper persons to give such Ine formation, but how many patents do their duty Jong this lne. Tn moxt cases this Instruction is 1e- ceived frum other children or older associates, whe are usually of ques- thunable character. Hence to those who are of all persons least qualified is entrusted the instiuction upon this all important subject, We hope, therefore, that this dis- ‘cussion shall start a wave of more se- rious thought and study upon this subject with a view to securing safer methods of having the children ac- quire these facts which we all hnow that they do all eventually acquire, | Another much mooted question con- ceinigs our American Social” Ehics is that of matiage and divorce, and we therefore desire to touch briefly on that subject which is probably next in importunce us well a3 in natural sequence lo that of sexology. thority, ix a riligious vow, based on one of {he liws of Creation, for man- kind is boin 'n ao balance of sexes which bas been matntatned throush- out all the ages despite all wats, nee cidents or other calamities which have destivyed millions of men, leaving women In the majority; yet, a genere ation or two restores the balanced pating: of humanity and monagmy cis- places polagmy as the law of cte- ation, ‘This conviction, that of mutriage, ia ordained of God iather than by human laws, and is life long in its obligations should be so seformed in public thinking that our boys and girls should grow up with the thought that home making is the ultimate purpose of all properly directed lives. and that home-breaking except for scriptural reasons, is criminal and for any reason Is a dire calamity. People should be taught that a "ceremony" does not marry them, but that It is only man’s method of re- cornizing the marriage which itself consists of the solemn vows of the parties made to each other in the prexence of Almighty God, that they two shall be one until death do them part, ‘ The girls and boys who are thus rannot help but make good wives and good husbands, for being unable 10 honorably break the home ties, they sil] make mutual cacessions, modi- fy opinions, forgive and seek for- tiveness, acknowledge mistakes, over- ook each other's faults and adjust | iffering temperaments toa become jimilar ones, Tam also of tho opinion that the |} e-establishment of the family altar |. vould have a tendency to keep the |! veart of the young couples warm |. vith spiritual ferve-, for while cos- netics wash off and the finery fadea, |, he finenes of the spirit which arises yhen the young people kneel at the J, amily altar tends to so win each to], he other, that all differences merge |, nto that beautiful home life that [¢ annot be destroyed by any act of f an. “Te In conelugion aay that em ‘4 cussion off g sent day incomplete 4¢ ithout at least a brief reference to P he subjegt at Fagenica, which ts ar ae peat, ee ayes oe Peenens Cay Nee? SCO NeLe without at least a brief reference to the subjegt of Fagenicn, which ts fohp ly newest phase of the uli. piivoke popular diseussion, but 1G iow being discussed frint the sacred pulpit ay well as from ‘the pu um, te it hes hebn pega will + bisa bq given a, the ficuum of oath Ry the term Eugenics is me pt the f ERB children well Hato! agi, hile at confess th t'adine sfartling dottrifs have been aie ced under his heading, yet It Iq Reyer? thelafsy brs phat is renteaents| a deep MA pp LA oer. yy A | : we - NEB M 4 a rte ei) Pier es a A |) YGc oe pienceniiers Ms eas i i an. eae A , q fy . fee 4 —_ 2 To 6S fis <P { ia gms ge. | 2 Maes ‘ Ait, we eh" ‘ y oe eRe YY i ¥ * ‘ 4 . Re | fi ay OF ‘ i. ‘ a4 A ® = it | os) ‘ “4 A ai , $ oy 3 Pa 3] ‘ y ‘ea NS te aa a4. Of N y) 5 dl M pd Oty Poe Ne eer . a Pi J Sci hes ae he &. c = : r Oy) 4 Z 3 bh Words That Freed a Race ” Aik Pai} —_———— i os Ny VY a) a WW I do order and declare FY - | Vv that all persons held as VA i - WY slaves . . . are and hence- Ni is t= 4 forward shall be free.— Sh ‘i = YF President Lincoln's mie Sy, i es lamation Issued Jan. 1, ee BK ee 1863. BAS. Pe ecsig! Coa 7 ee es 4 Photo by American Press Amnaciation problem that some day must Le s5t. ved, Science and moral purpose shoul a "* to uphft the home, for, if one } aod blood and great capacity, indeed a misfrtune and possibly in not to perpetuate them in the siously tainted elther in bloud or world, On the other hanu, if one 1 seriously tainted either in blood or habits, it is equally sinful and should be criminal to entall the consequen- ces of his misfurtune upon othern Here is a new realm for the ap- plication of heroism and chivalry— to hve for the unborn and the age that is to be, This will hold a large place among the ideals and the romantic motives of another generation. Physical responsibility for the stress of life ia but one type of the responibihtty of influence—the passing on of environment processes @” the mental, moral sad spiritual heritage of our generation. Even old bachelors like Paul have spiritual children. | The pupil in your class room, he student in your office and even the servant in your house, may ect Ay dependent upon you for the'strength-., ening jof thone qualities which must pe parsed on to make the next gen- eration What it’ really dught to be: The ‘rilstitkes ‘of the’ past Ape, ation are apparént ‘iri some of th me tendencies with which we are is nelled to combat today. JOA This ‘passing ‘on process is OF SG0 what ye éalt influence, and, eonearne y ing ithe ‘rexpective ‘Hmits of these? wa ‘procesgen,'acientlats are LYed? ncgns ‘iehedy'Hut~as to the repute # the’ dndbination Hof the tesla moulding an individual or a gehgrs, tion there Is little room for doubts y Bid it Withdéd !aran orsere nan thén!thkdetd’ give nome cAADA ration La this phase-of his ont fe aril bemeconsideration ot =f hYfortatt _giattion! whats am Fis wid"or the nduti generation.” nut oad Iicomnadbon Ragerdy 02 “vlan? Wada THE EMANCIPATOR Kansas Negroes Will Honor Abe Lincoln! hay Lincoln bay Ciuda Falivitien— The Curtis and Stubbs Factions Each Struggling to Predominate. J. U, B. Taylor, chairman of the executive committee, and general man. ager, announces that all is in readi- ness for the Lincoln Day celebration, Mr, Taylor is a tureless worker and the success of the celebration will be due to his efforts. He says it will be the liggest ever, and also that there is a poltical uprising for the first time in the club's history, and a lively, tit is expected among the boys____ The Kansay. 14 cluh commend ALIPAY, full an at, FRershgry| eps Daag raepich will held zt dicate all next ondat everbia: Feb! £2! The come mitiog had xpated ind pains to mal fy one of the-randest-sffaire of- its hi 4 tt Tf rot, R, : K) U, at ss Wert. on the MOU AIA ear Sr areeg hiya} he pub. te 1itcinghlysrgommpendég’tq attend Sh at aT ce wie Hon lt Reena are cx SERON ZINA deel Dera srym other RY Met dial aeration: , efivd 4 number iafent setae aro lone h¥Oduberitesc madi beqaayody will he CEUs ht state, 2biaTahw tink Guise oR me In WAwho BuO Wi ereN>UAO vB Quve eA MAAR, Ren DABAM 12 0 Bs reperiat Qudihet * > os area ee tee SMAI SCR Invocation... ......Rev. G, W. Henry Music,..,,.Jackson's 23d Reg. Band Voeal Solo..Miss Porter, K. C, Kan. President's Annual Address..W. W. Fisher, Inst. Solo.s.eeeseMass Alberta Guy Sonkesesescecoeeee Ss I. L Glee Club Tost. Sulosee. 6. oeDude” Simpson Principal Addrexa “The Emancipa- ion” by Prof, R. I, Brown. BANQUET PROGRAM, Music......Jackson's 23d Reg. Bund Nullification of Negroe’s Righta.... teereeresstgewik Ransom, Topeka Nalf a Man,.Dr, Walt Caldwell Atchison, Th Attitude of the American Peps the Negro, lrof, Woody ED The, Lifs,qt Erederjck Douglas, Mr. Pa ah ale The Negro ta Volitics, Won, Jas, WT, ThGdy. tt YENU., | 4, Oyster Cocktait Tong Branch Crackers a: | alls ee eas Poygoes PEO Choice Fruita Ice Cream Abnorted Cakes OFFICERS, Pres., W, W, Fisher, Kansas City, Kansas, Sec, John M, Wright, Topeka, Kansaa. Treaa, Corwine Patterson, Kansas cit¥; Kaneas, y Vico Prep, M. A. G, Mastin, Hol- on, Mansag. , Seg. Vieg Pres., J. T, Bradley, Kan- a Citys, Kansas. wee fl Third Vice Pres, Foster Williams, Coffeyville, Kansas, Fourth Vive Prout A'S? Arties] CACHeld, Kelia@le 4 RI LEA CACALA ATI HY Fifth Vice Pre«, W, W. Snobe, Sac lina, Kansas. _ “Sixth” Vie Pres; Samuel Carey, Topeha, Kansas, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 4. WL. B. Taylor, Chairman, Tope- ha, Kansas, Judge A. C, Clark, Lawrence, Kan. Mts, | De. GC. Brown, Wichita, Kansas. | I. 1, Monioe, Tomcha, Kansai. Prof, Vrod Roundtree, Topeka, Kansas, J.oM Harrison Itutchinson, Kane sas, Chaa ©. Tytle, Topeka, Kanaas, Ne Sawyr, Topeka, Kansaa. RECEPMION COMMITTER, Chairman, Theddeu T MartinProf, CV. Clinkecales, Wo Te McKnight Judge WE Jamison, Judge A. Bo Thomas, C. W. Bradshaw, Dr. D. A. Tay lor, Dr, W, EE. Jackson, J, M. Fere suson, Eat] Beck, Richard Iightowe er, G. Wy Charles, Frank Wilson, Kirk Fingston, M,C. Cunningham, Tred M, Ware, I". M. Stonestreet, Dr, Russell. USHERS, wee ceoe Chairman, James Nevels, Harry Dillard, Arthur Wardy, Charles Scott, Albert Gariet, Arthur Tres- \an, Richard Basa, Benj. Perkins, Ralph Oglessic, Emmon Sims, KANSAS CIT’, KANSAS The Onient Literary society of St. Paul A. M. E, church, is progressing nicely with a large attendance, On Tuesday Tuesday night the following program was rendered, Recitation, Mra, Calhe Finkard; instrumental so- lo, Miss L. Coleman; paper, “The Noble Mission of the Colored Girl,” Misy Sadie Cutley; debate, “Which Is tne Most useful to Child, Mother or Vather,” nffumative, Mr. Norman Rrouks, Miss Jexsie Necly; negative, Mr, Elmore Ward, Mr, Cedsick Stews ard, a Deka 7 ey There hay been a tot of sickness in this distiict, Miss Lulu Lytle has been on the sick list about a month, but fs much impoved, Me, George Usde is still on the sich list ond is improving slowly, Mr, Charhe Wilk- erson Was bith for a few days but Is better. ‘the wedding belly were ringing last Thaisday myht for Mr. Alex Harris and Ms, lan Gouch were united in wedlock, Rev, W. C, Shelton offict- uted, LINCOLN, NE7R. ‘ew, 2, d. Doster ts niranging for broster ministerial activities, Mr. J. 1. Weight, of the First National Mank, is perhaps the best known Negro in’ the city of Line caln, Mr, Adam Loving and Rev. 0. J, Burkhardt are on the sick Iist. Dr, I. A. Longdon reports a great deal of sickness in the city, tev, Russell Brown was a visitor in the city lant week, Mrs. Clara Shipman and Messrs W. FE. Edwards, J. 1 Malone, 0. J. Burkhardt, Mra, Leona Dean contri- buted $5 each last Sunday and the pastor and congregation raixed $25.60 more, niahing $5550 for the Ist A, M. E. chuach, The sunday schvol, Mrs. W. R. Col- ley, superintendent; the Ventecost meeting, Mrs, I, Malone leader; the Allen C. E. L, Mrs. 1, Bratcher, pres; and the cholr, Mra, 1, Malone, leader, and Miss V, Fields, organist are all live wires in the Ist A. M. E, church, Nig. Gals xpert elec. rf ni c dine years a the whole- sale house. of Maines & Paype: Mra. PI. Moore and Miss Kathryn 3 Turner were married at the A, M. E. parsonage’ 1824 8 11th street, Wednesday evening, Rev, C. R. Run- on officiating, ‘the popular, | contest rt art] o eee i .2ch| . Wi be? WEIR CIT Y,KAN, Th Lattte Day Saints have called & preacher, They are caerying on a meeting at the Central schoo} build ing, Rev. SM. Hall sf Burlingham Ala, preachd to @ crowded house on the 20th of January at St. John's church, Muy, T. By Pierce of Chero- kee and Reve Ehse of Pittsburg was here tn aastat him, Bre, Salle Christon, who has been looking fur her sister for sq Jong, re- colsad totter stuting that she was wergisitke TEM Gide 4+ Revd. H, Gunner preached at St. bent on the 4th. The Sunday school fs prepaing for a big rally and hops to radselabytt 3300 AT NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE Wichita, Kansas, WICHITA ADS - * Charges in routing have necessitated a slight rearrange- of the colored lights indicating the rhute of cars: These signals will hereafter be as follows: a 8, Main-Stock Yards ilne, Red and Blue | College Hill-W. Side Line, White 2 lights i Patte-Waco Line - Green and White Cleveland Line =: Red and White Piverside-S. Emporia - Green 2 lights « Fairmount Line - - Red 2lights Me Mt, Cvrmel Line + Red and Green Extra Cars - Red White and Blue. # you hive a complaint on yout service or a euggention for itf better. ment, we worthd appreciate a letter from you adout it, We desire to do all we can consatently, t> make our re vice satisfactory aud yon can “elp usin this manner, fhe Wichita Railroad and Light Co. ne nen Karsas Gas & Electri arsas Gas ectric Co. LIGHE, HEAT. POWER. us EVERYBODY CAN ‘ HAVE AN IDEAL HOME e ThePrice Makes It Easy. WICHITA, U.S. A. ‘The ateve Aatentent be carve t POA, RUSSELL. Cashion. OL OcERS, e. W. CAREY, tresident, AOL BLACK. View Prestdurt AM SEBWARE, Vice Preadent, oA. RUSSEEL, Cashicr. DIRLCLORS, 2. OS. Vernon, S. WW. Cooper, J. H. Blak, M. ©. Campbell, J oH Stewart, CW. Cais, Wa 1, Otis, Wantidd, Kan; W. 2. Brown, Au. Hasta, han. SHE KANS is NAHONAL BANK Wichita, hansas, Oficial Statement (Condense) le the Comptroiler of the Currency, De- cember 3. 1921. RESOURCES, Loans and Discounts...$1,746,075.49 Overdrafts, . o seosoese 730,52 U. S. Bonds (at par)... 51,000.00 Banking Houre, Furni- ture and Fixcwres.... 55,000.00 Bonds and Stocks (bonds fonly). «63 240,292 67 Cash and Exchange 1,402,59937 1,643,892.04 Use the Howard Mills Co.’s Flour $3,496,698.05 LIABILITIES. Capital Stoth. . .+++++.$ 200,000 00 Surplus, . 5 wecsseeeess 100,000.00 Undivided Profits, .66.. 50,389.15 Circulation, ......-.-.-. 50,000 00 Reserved for Taxes... SAL 15 DEPOSITS Tnnhvidual $1,226,870 4 “‘overnnient 1,000.00 Ranks and Banhers,, 1,835,527.42 3,112,897,70 The J. W. METZ Wants to Figure on Your Nest Bill. Phone 196. OFFICE AND YARD, 101-21 N. MAIN, - WICHITA, KAN. THE GREATEST VARIETY : = —OF— ww, a8 . OS IN THE CITY. . 7 WE KEEP THEM CLEAN. ‘Whitlock B IW hitloc ros., Both Phones 298, 216 East Douglas Ave. 33,496,093 09 ‘The above statement is vorrect. ELSBERRY MARTIN, Caphier. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS, Cc. Q. CHANDLER, President EE, MASTERMAN, Vice President J. W. BERRYMAN, 2d Vice President ELSBERRY MARTIN, Cashier, CHARLES TESTARD, Asst. Cashier. Cc. W. SOUTITARD, C. 11. BROOKS, W. R, DULANEY, A. 5S. PARKS, W. S. HENRION, Cor, Central Ave, and Main St., Wichita, Kan. When You Go To Springfield SLOP AT VE DUNBAR CAFE Services Strictly Alacuart. SANUEL H. COX, Prop. Phone J, 2968 DELICIOUS! HEALTHFUL! SUGGESTIONS FOR USING Otto Weiss Kaffir FI ° Itean ve wad by at cor mused with wheat four We do not think af necessary to rive any -pestal restpes, but bale every qook will have better ge it by using her own reapes, adding enous h haffir flour to -uit the aa ¢ We oraommend main fremont one half to threefourth — hathe flour with wheat flour fur pancakes, mute and poms, and for dough- huth, cakes, fruit cokes, or any other himd of pastry from one-fourth da one-third kuffir flour, Tt hay a awcet, rich and dell sous flavor, ts cdey to dizest, and every fine yuu cat if, sou wall lhe at betear. We use the comet -yetem of milling and only the best sekated white badir corn, de iv Claamer and far more santary than common Ine dian corn, whith fe full of rotten grulns and picces of cob, We predict that “GPTO WEISS KATEIR PLOUI will be a staple food product ant outsell curn meal ine very short time, Manufactured Only Dy . THE OTTO WEISS ALFALFA STOCK FOOD CO. Mann WICHITA, KANSAS. t | A ey FORD'S , / : fas HAIR POMADE ae aes an AA CY A . GIOSST SOFTER ANO MORE PUIBLE, Nee 7 | 2151 TOM AD NTU aT STE TRE RENTON WML PERAAAT OROTLLED f08 PREVENTING AlN TRON FALLING OUT. RARDRUFE 4x0 FTE OF SCALP BEWARE OF tH sTATIONS CET PHE GENUINE.DUT WP UN 250 AN Sd+ BATTLES HTM CHARLES FORD'S KANE ON {VERY PACHACE ow e oe TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE ®. SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION, MAKES THE SKIN WHITER (MMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE JHE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCELLED FOR ECZEMA, SALY RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND FRECKLES.c ¢ ¢ SOLD BY DRUGUSTS IF YOUR BAUCCIST CANNOT SUPPLY VOU WE WALL SEND MI TO YOU DISILT AS THE GOLLINRG PROCES SAL ILD OUT 254 LARGE SATB BOF, Se ia cresarens MANO Ce. B33 LAKES 4GEmTS To" = The cost of living is : Cheap if you trade at Wegeley’ egcleys Where you will find aclesa store well stocked with Groceries and Meats. | Our Goode are the Best in |Quality and Right io Price, Your Patronage Solicited. WEGELEY’S, 1135 Kansas Avenue. ais ' Guman Hair Geads Switches and Pomp+....50¢ oe Transformation... ...6 $1.50 Wigs fiom 25¢ test a0 WS, MOL. PELL, tohithrix Parte: stb hansae Une, Topeka. han Citizens State Bank fA.” '-™& SAFE AND SOUND. *, ores CAPITAL STOCK, $25,000. * « 4 7% sees KINGFISHER, OKLA. y The Negro Will Never Lose a Cent Deposited oo With the Citizens’ State Bank, . “KINGFISHER, - - OKLAHOMA. Endorsed By Every House Wife The New Methed of washing Clothes without the aid of a wash board has been found in OBB , 6 ‘ : en S | ot 1 gn Every Bar of this Soap is Guaranteed todo as represented and the only soap in the world backed by u patent from the United States Government . . . Manufactured by w w Kansas City Soap Company w uf Fetters Bros, Props. Kansas City, ~ Kansas LOS ANGLLIES. CAL. dhe Aan tsseurt club of Lo Angles sends grectige for the New Ven of HZ to har alates nnd fide in then uld home states of hatsas and Missouil We have made 4 tesulution in thts now year to tes momber out old home and old friends and let them know that we remember then by sending them frequent mes- sates during this year. | Prospects were never liighter for the mans members of the club, Al are supremely happy in this glorious land of sushine and flowers, where winters are unknown. The club cesed the Chiistraas festivities in Los An- and in fact the last social gathering of any consequence in 191t with an old fashioned “Christmas Party” and one not soon to be forgotten by those who were fortunate enough to be pro- ent. The farge and spacious rooms ct the ¥, M,C. A. were lavishly deco- iated for the occasion with roses, carnations and violets in the greutest profusion, The immense Christmas tree was stationed in the gymnasium, and was laden with handsome gifts for th members and their friends. The tree itself was the center of attrat- vin, with its many electire lights and ghttering ornaments and targe Christmas Lells placed so as o give the mission effect, and at the same time connect the many yards of tin- sel that encircled the entiie tree. The banquet tables eatended the full length of the room, bearing the clubs colors of gieen and yellow, The re- frehsments, prepared by an expeti- enced chef, and served hy willing hands, was appetizing indeed. A shoit and spicy progiam was rene dered by the following talent: Vo- cal duct, Misses Eva and Naomi John- son; lvading, Miss LaVerne True; sulo, Miss Gertie Williams, vocal solo, Ms. Elizabeth Gould. About 200 per- sons were present and showed their appreciation by many grateful ex- pressions, Mr, and Mas. L, Hubbard, whose former home was Kansas City, Mo, entertained the Kancas-3H.sourt club at their pwell new home on West the newest models in architecture, The large iving-:oom, musiceroom and dining room with its elegant fur- nishings nd beautiful decorations r¢- minded one of a fairy palace. ‘The occasion was the firat meeting election of officers and the 1¢-enroll- ment of members was the principal business of the evening, The same officers who had served the previous term were te-cleeted by unammeus sate, The principal offwers being: S.E. dobnson, president; A, J. Jones, vice-presidents Mrs. Laura Stayton, accletary; Mis, Schuyfor Lyon-Tigsle: aston, assistant secretary; Miss Effie Tyan, conesponding secretinys OE. Wallet Creasurers Mrs Cacrie Harris Andrews, chaplatn, Gear ef durect- we WT. Patterson, Matcus Bain, 1. Hultaird, Mis, Cata Owen, die, Magtao Williams, Ufter Installation the host atid hestess took ghinge of the meeting and ersed daltPy ter fieshments to thei: many guests while toatuiny orchestra stationed in the muste soom furnished the swectest mute until a date hour when the guests took a look around the feauth AN prounds with fs aethte pottery, profusion of ferns and rare flowers hghted up with many Japanese tans terns, The guests voted it by far the most beautiful home in Los An- veles and were Joath ta depart ata Bee Goa f FS | ~ on << . ee : eS XS Set ss ; ; ni i 5 i ae ir) ¢ | eee ; : wees nae WU potas eu eS re ae is i ‘ aA ; \ : oe Ur ee ri ; —— r ; he - Loose Wi iles Bis . cuit Com pany witer “ \. ° 6 j ‘wan every day delicacy that all A ean afford, , j +A few cents a month covers the difference between ordinary butter and “Meadow Gold.” - Butter ts one of thote “big little things'’—a poor quality can leave a feeling of dissatisfaction with an entire meal, while good butter lends an additional charm . The delicious flavor ef “Meadow Gold” Buiter = “Ys particularly enticing. Its rare richness ; "s “appeals to the most fastidious palate. Sold by stl Its Flavor goin en a 4 ‘ a es iM TO Kansas City ‘ e 17 Trains Daily Leavenworth to - Kansas City hig NOTICE 10 AGENTS AND CORRE. SPONDENES. Vhase send cut or phatograph that we may use during the year, Huve correspondence in by Wednesday, We have installed our new Jinotype machine and paper will be out regu- larly. How Lincoln Problem Recruiting Officer Who Was Slow About Moving Troops Received Effective Lesson [Colonel Alexander K. McClure, for many years editor of the Philadelphia Times, was closely associated with President Lincoln during the civil war. The accompanying narrative of a little know idea that hovs Lincoln's quick tact is the end of Colonel Inventor book, Lincoln and Men of War Times.] IRIT M. A pointed启示 of his own rate signals, when he contended with real missing and complicates that to curre in 1822, when I was in charge of the military department of Pennsylvania, patrolling to the east for troops made under the state law. Harrisoning was no important center of military supplies, as well as the political center of the st. Louisian army contracts, where there awarded and executed night officers was neglected to draw at that time. After the day, it had been made the consipid leam to pour into the capital by thou and and, as the demand for re-enforcements in the field was very pressing, I called upon the military officer at the city and urged upon him the necessity of mastering the new manners promptly as possible. To my simpson, he ministered only two companies the first day out of a thousand men. On the second day, notwithstanding my earnest appeal to him, he ministered no more than two companies, and on the third day, when I had over 5,000 men in camp, a mere mob, without organization or discipline, the same toll as process of mastering was continued. I telegraphed Secretary Stanton that I had many men in camp and that they were arriving in large numbers, but that I could not have them mustered—that I could forward a regiment of troops every day. If the government would furnish the officers to muster and organize them. A prompt answer came that it would be done. The following morning a new officer appeared, of course subordinate to the commandant of the place who had charge of the mustering, and he promptly mustered an entire regiment the first day. On the following morning he was relieved from duty and ordered elsewhere, and the mustering again fell back to two companies a day. In the meintime over 7,000 men had been gathered into the camp, and it was evident that the question of supplying the camp and the interests of contractors had become par amount to the enforcement of the army. I telegraphed Lincoln that I would see him in Washington that night and hurried on to correct the evil by personal conference with him. The case was a very simple one, and he readily took in the situation. He knew that I had labored day and night for two months, without compensation or the expectation of it, to hasten the Pennsylvania troops to the aid of our soldiers in the field, and I said to him that if he would send mastering officers to or © Bouch GUNIZE them promptly I would return and finish the work, if not, I would abandon it and go home. Lincoln was greatly polished at the development, but he understood that a change of military officers at Hartlesburg such as this occasion seemed to demand would involve serious political complications. He was of all things most desirous to strengthen our shattered armies, and it was not very soon that he meant to do so in some way, but without offense to the political power that controlled the military assessments at Hartlesburg. Without intimating his solution of the problem he ring his bell and instructed his lieutenant to bring Adjutant General Thom is to the executive chamber soon after the adjutant general appointed, and I should said, "General, what is the military rank of the soldier or at Hammersgr? to which the adjutant general replied, "Captain, sir." and naming the officer. Lincoln promptly said in reply. Solved by Strategy Civilian Was Given Commission That Ranked Him and He Quickly Look the Hint "Bring me a commission immediately for Alexander K. McClure as assistant adjutant general of the United States volunteers with the rank of major." The adjutant general took self-out when I immediately asked to join that I could not consent to be subject to military service—that I deserved no opposition in the work I performed at that must declare the honor he proposed to confer upon me. In his quiet way he replied, "Well, McClure, try my way. I think, that will get the troops on without delay and without trudging on anybody's feet. I think if you will take your commission back to Hankinson, call upon the captain in command there to master you into the service of the United States and show him your assignment to duty there you will have no trouble whatever in getting the oDusen "I HANDED HIM MY COMMISSION." troops organized and forwarded as rapidly as you wish. Now try it, won't you? I saw the wisdom of the suggestion and well understood why the president desired to avoid the offense that would have been given by the removal of the military officers, and I agreed I try his plan. When I returned to Harrisburg the next day I sent for the senior officer to come to my office. He came in with all the dignity and airgrace of an offended Caesar and spoke to me with a harshity. I quietly handed him my commission, requested him to muster me into the military service and also exhibited the order assigning me for duty at Harrisburg. When he saw my commission his hat was immediately removed and he was as obsequious as he had been incident before. When he had finished mustering me into the service I said to him: "I presume you understand what this means. I don't propose to make any display of military authority or to interfere with anything except that which I have immediately in hand. There must be a regiment of troops mustered and forwarded from this state every day until the troops in camp are all sent to the field. Good morning." He immediately bowed himself out, saluting in military style as he did so, a grace that I had not yet mastered sufficiently to return, and from that day until the camp was emptied of conscripts a regiment of troops was mustered daily and forwarded to Washington. That was the only military authority I ever exercised, and few knew of the military dignity I had so suddenly attained. When the troops were forwarded to the field and the accounts settled I resigned my commission as quietly as I received it and sent my resignation to the president, who, as he had voluntarily promised, ordered its immediate acceptance. The officer who was thus so unexpectedly supervised and who was so promptly made to render efficient service to the country by Lincoln's admirable strategy is no longer among the living, and Imit his name. He learned how Lincoln could discipline a soldier, and he profited by the lesson SENATOR CULLOM'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN'S APPEARANCE Mr. Lincoln was regarded generally as an unglory man, and yet not occasional he appeared to me to be superior in dignity and mobility to any other man whom I have ever met. It was present when the committee of the national convention that gave him his first nomination for president, and to springfield to notify him of his nomination. I remember that he stood in the rear of the double parlor of his home, and as Hon. George? Ashman, president of the convention, presented the delegation one by one to him. I thought that he looked the superior man that he was to any one present. Ilis Character Analyzed by a President, an ExPresident and Other Noted Americans. A. B. BY WILLIAM POWARD TATT I now find it much to say that the most full and competent man in history has acted the arguments of his opinion, and of the fairness of John Stuart Mill, preserved that such an institution of the views of every one that became important, and in his deal with them he left in more than the application of an instant story or a clear Linnell like demonstration of error without sting. With his love of truth, the supreme trait of his intellect, accompanied by a conscience that insisted on the right as he knew it, with a great heart full of tenor's power, we have the combination that in full coincide one of the two great virtues. The south knows now that there is a man that unites them in peace. The that of Alabama Louisiana and South knows as the north knows that every administration that we see, in that cause of misunderstanding, between the sections of the Union, them closer together in any way is getting under the inspiration of man who could love his entire country with unpublished art when nearly one half was seeking destroy its latency. J. THEODORF NOOSEVILT: INCOLS saw into the future with the proplastic imagination usual It vouched only to the poet and the seer. He had in him all the lift toward greatness of the visionary, without any of the visionary's munificent or gothism, without any of the visionary's narrow jealousy of the practical man and inability to strive in practical fashion for the realization of an ideal. He had the practical man's hard common sense and willingness to adapt means to ends, but there was in him none of that morbid growth of mind and soul which blinds so many practical men to the higher things of life. No more practical man ever lived than this honest backwoods idealist, but he had nothing in common with those practical men whose consciences are warped until they fall to distinguish between good and evil, fail to understand that strength, ability, shrewdness, whether in the world of business or of politics, only serve to make their possessor a more nervous, a more evil member of the community if they are not guided and controlled by a fine and high moral sense. By HENRY WATTERSON: REVILED even as the Man of Gail lea, still even as the Man of Gail he, same as in the same of calam- lee, yet as gentle and unoffending, a man who died for men! Roll the stone from the grave and what shall we see? Just an American, the des- claration of independence his confession of faith, the constitution of the United States his arist, and covenant of liberty, the Union his redoubt, the dag his shibboleth Called the one of old within a hand ful of years he rose at a supreme moment to supreme command, fulfilled the law of his being and passed from the scene an exhalation of the dawn of freedom. We must still hear his chory voice bidding us be of good heart, sure that "right makes right" entreating us to pursue "with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right." By Justice CHARLES E. HUGHES; ABRAHAM LINCOLN was an acute man. But we erect no monuments to shrewdness . . . Lincoln was a man of principle. . . He ever sought for the foundation principle and built upon it with sure confidence that the house which was founded upon the rock could not be destroyed by the storm. He was profoundly an apostle of liberty, but for liberty under the law, developed and applied in accordance with constitutional principle. He was a man who met each demand as it arises. To the radicals he was too conservative; to the conservatives he was too radical. By BOOKER T. WASHINGTON: M First knowledge of Abraham Lincoln came in this way. was awakened early one morning before the dawn of day, as I lay wrapped in a bundle of rogs on the dirt floor of our slave cabin, by the prayers of my mother just before leaving for her day's work, as she was kneeling over the curently praying that Abraham Lincoln might succeed and that one day she and her boy might be free. As an individual, grateful as I am to learn for freedom of body, tax attitude is still greater for the dream of soul the liberity which permits one to live up in that atmosphere where he is free to permit sectional or in half-traded down, to warp and narrow the soul. Lincoln lives today to meet the courage which a noble him refuse to hate the man at the south and the man at the north when they did not agree with him. YOUNG AMERICA'S TRIBUTE TO LINGO 10 DOMESTIC LIFE OF MR. LINCOLN Ey J. H. ROCKWELL. [Copyright by American Press Association.] So many infatements have been made to bring the domestic life of Mr. Lloyd as to create a very general impression that his marriage was a most happy one. Just how these fashions got into print it is somewhat difficult to say, but there are still living in Springfield. THE LADY OF THE CITY MRS. LINCOLN several of his old neighbors who con- trudet these unwarranted statements, maintaining that his home life was a thoroughly happy one and that his marriage was no more a mistake John W. Jinn, prefect of the Springfield Marine Corps, knew Mr. Lincoln well from the time he went to Springfield as a law student in 1837 until the time of his assassination in 1863. In a recent interview concerning this matter he said "It is slow in mean the way people who are in it on in better busi- ness these days. I believe do he about the Lincoln family. Mrs Lincoln was a pretty woman, cultu- lized and with a wit. I of motherly protection and the sort of confidence how little she was not. Mr Lincoln was not more than any other woman for a More ham Lincoln than Speaking of Mr. Lincoln's hearing before the community and of his so- cial standing, Mr. Bunna denies that he was ever treated with vulgar familiar- ity by the people here "Those who profess to have been familiar with Mr. Lincoln and speech of calling him 'Abe' are presuming on ignorance. The people of Springfield knew him only as 'Mr. Lincoln. He was a young lawyer when he came here in the spring of 1857, but he had been a member of the legislature for two terms and as the leader of the Long Mine had no more than any other man to bring about the removal of the state capital from Vandalia to Springfield. They may have called him 'Abe' in Indiana and out here in New Salem, where he spent his lifehood and youth, but not in Springfield. Naturally many have wished to make it appear that they were intimate with Mr. Lincoln, so in their immature conversations which they repeat they disprove, in stead of prove, by telling how they called him 'Abe' and the like. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were both charming people. It is contiguous the way they have been illuminated." Another friend of Lincoln's still living in Springfield, who met him first in 1834 and who knew him intimately after he became president, is Dr William Jayne. Dr Jayne, by the way, was territorial governor of Dakota under Mr. Lincoln in during his first ad imputation. The doctor said. "I first knew Mr. Lincoln in 1834, seventy five years ago. He was still living in New Salem and was deputy surveyor and postmaster of that village, had served one term in the legal nature and was a candidate for reelection. Even at that time there was something about the unquietly and poorly clothed young man that forbidd to an offseason person a bright future in public life. My first sight of him was at the dinner table in the common dining room of the Rutledge tavern, where he always stopped when in Springfield. After dinner I drove with my father to Huron a little town not far out from Springfield where my father owned a store in partnership with N. W. Edwards, afterward Mr. Lincoln's brother in law. In conversation with Mr. Edwards my father said to him, I remember "that young man Lincoln will some day be governor of Illinois" I was then a law of ten and thought my father must be jealous, for I had been in Springfield two governors of Illinois. Multon Edwards of Belleview and Joseph Dixon of Jacksonville They were both well dressed men, drove in their own carriages, with the horses and coats of coachem Mr. Lincoln certainly did not look much like these men but my father's forefight was better than his own, for in a little over twenty years Mr. Lincoln was president of the United States. "I was present at the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd and a pretty world, it seemed to me, then a kind of sorton. Mr. sister was Mary Todd's bride, and they were deeply amenable to it. It was this sister, Julia, and Ms. Todd I who wrote the second of the last two days that so arranged Mr. Shields, the last child of I am to tell you the recolours duel about which we are to hear on and written ten. Mr. I am to write the first Rebecca's letter poking fun at the demonsate but Mary and Julia's letter was too personal, ridiculous Shields' vanity and setting everybody laughing at him. This was more than the little Irishman could stand. Mr Lincoln assumed the entire responsibility of the matter, and the challenge followed, and Lincoln would have his fun with shields even to the extent of a duel. "The upshot of it all was," continued the doctor, "that Miss Todd became reconciled to Mr Lincoln. They were believed to have been engaged at last there had been an understanding between them, and they had quarreled. He was sensitive and maudled, and she was sensitive and high strung, and so trouble had ensued. After Mr. Lincoln had so gallantly risked his life to shield Miss Todd, however, she relented, and they were married in the fall of 1842. "It was about the first time the Episcopal marriage service was used here, and old Judge Browne, hearing the groom promise to endow his wife with all his 'worldly goods', exclaimed as soon as the ceremony was over, 'Grace to Goshen, Lincoln, the statute fixes all that!'" When the doctor's attention was called to the story that previous date had been set for this ceremony and that Lincoln failed to put in an appearance he said: "No, I know of no such occurrence. None of us ever heard of it. The story came out long after Lincoln's death and Mrs. Lincoln's hopeless illness. True, ```markdown ``` DR. WILLIAM JAYNE Herndon gives it currency in his 'Life of Lincoln, but there must have been a mistake somewhere. The judge and I were friends. He claimed that Mrs. Lincoln told him the story herself, but he and she were never very friendly. It is simply one of those occurrences no one can explain." The Lincoln home in Springfield remains very much as it was when the Lincoln occupied it, a number of the rooms having in them the same furniture used by them before they left for Washington. The house is owned by the state and is occupied by the family of A. S. Edwards, son of N. W. Edwards, who was Mr. Lincoln's brother in law. The house is open to the public. A CALL FROM THE SOUTH Editor Plaindealer: I am taking the liberty to address this letter to you, as well as to some other influential editors above the Ohio and in the West. which I trust you will in some degree treat as confidential, and if the idea advanced seems good to you, shall be pleased to have you work it out in whatever manner you deem I write you on matters political. The Negro in the South can be most effective in the National Convention, the Negro in the North can be most effective at the polls; by working along certain lines we can be of help to each other. For the past decade the white office holders in the South, who in reality constitute about all the whites of the Republican party in the South, with the possible exception of Tennessee and Kentucky, have been crowding the Negro off the State committees, filing his place with white postmasters and other office holders, and of the Republican National Committee. I think you will give with me that that the thing has gone entirely to fail and we do not protest enough. It has occurred to me that it would help situation no little if our papers in the North and West would take up the fight, as the various states will soon be choosing their delegates, condemn strongly the policy of the whites in the South, who hold all offices and are also taking all the places on the delegations and committees. They brazenly assert that the administration and others in authority that if the unfair treatment is backed by them that the Negroes would resist it at polls. They would call a halt. There are some of us in the South who are awake on the matter, and if you will help us on that and we will regain some of the lost ground before the battle of 1912 is over. When the movement was started to get the Negro off the front seat in the Republican party in the South the advocates of it, the white office holders, claimed that it would build up the party would attract other white people to it. Well they have all the reins in their hands, and save where there is a split among the Democrats themselves, the Republican party is weaker here and everywhere else than it has ever been. There is nothing in the argument save a perpetuation of a certain class of office holders, and when it comes to favors or fair dealings the regular Democrat here is our main reliance. A call from our Macdonald brothers should be heard. Why not our our northen and western brothers? Go to their call. It is the unbounded duty of the Reubenham party of the north to see to it that all Republicans have an even brake in the south if they expect support in the north. Who should the southern white man get all the pie and can't deliver any goods? The colored Republicans have been loyal in the north with the expectation that their southern brothers might at last be allowed to elect a delegate to the National convention. We now sound a note of warning that if the party wants the support of the colored voter of the north they had better look up the rights of the fellow who has always been loyal. The white southern man is only in the game to get the few fish and boats that the party has to give in the south and when that is ocurred "goodbye, old paty, good bye." The lily whites are nothing more not less than monte banks. The Dalton and James gang did not come near committing as many horrible crimes as these so-called saviors of the white south. They have done everything against the black man to keep them from holding any office or represent the party at any gathering the Negro made the Republican party in the south, bled and died or her cause. Now let justice be done or the Negro voters in the north will take the next best route Sheriff E. F. Beck of Reno County Has Made a Good Record and Will Be Nominated by the Democrats of His County. Among the thrifty and enterprising man of the middle west who have built up the county and made a success by doing things worth while, the name of H. C. Beck of Hutchinson, Kansas, stands second to no citizen of these parts. Mr. Beck was born in Bellevue, Iowa, and 36 years ago he came to Reno county, and in 1879 his principal heritage was a good physical constitution, a genial disposition and a system chuck full of honesty and integrity; and with these essential qualifications he has gone forth into the world and achieved an enviable success. He is now filling the office of sheriff of Reno county and his record as such is unsurpassed by any of his predecessors. He is an honest, conscientious officer with a close application to business and no man in the county can boast of a larger circle of friend than Sheriff Beck. He is the broadest type of American citizenship and all good citizens look alike to him and yet he is a terror to the evil doers. He is a Democrat, but his popularity is not confined to any party, the rank and file of all parties agree upon the fact that he has made an ideal sheriff and that the public's appreciation of the splendid record as sheriff will be fully manifested next November by re-electing him to the high office, the affairs of which he has so successfully conducted for the past two years. He is a potent officer in both county and state politics. It was his astute political forsight that had much to do with bringing out Mr. Neely as a Congressional possibility in the Seventh district Judge Seargent Will Succeed Himself as District Judge in Department No.2. When Governor Stubbs appointed Hon. Thonton W. Searcott to the position of Judge of the District of Shawnee county (Division No. 2) the members of the Sedgewick County Bar knowing as they did of the splendid qualifications of Mr. Stargent, heartily approved the appointment and complimented the Governor upon splendid service. Like State law has lived in W. W. or called a name of a century and during that time he always been looked upon as an able and honest and conscientious attorney, belonging to the high class of lawyers who rightly believe that every man who takes up the office profession of Blackstone should be the embodiment of honesty and integrity and possess the highest sense of honor. During the time he has been serving on the bench he has proved himself an able and impartial judge, and all of his decisions are rendered with a spirit of fairness and justice to all. He has shown decidedly and without question that he possesses all of those essential qualifications that go to make up the ablest type of American jurists. --- Men in the Political Eye. Men in the Political Eye. A. E. Hurford, candidate for city commissioner election April, 1912. In the selection of a man to fill the important office of city commissioner it is incumbent upon every voter to consider carefully before he marks his ballot. The office is a most important one and one that carries with it the economic welfare of the beautiful city of Norton. It is one that calls for honesty, integrity and capacity; and the citizens of Newton do not seem necessary to trip any experiment. Mr. A. E. Hurford, the present incumbent, has made an enviable record as commissioner. He has served every interest of the citizen and taxpayer and devoted his time and ability to the progress and prosperity of Newton. He is unscrupulously honest and conducts the affairs of his office as commissioner for the city along the same economic lines as he has so successfully conducted his own private business. He is broad in his views and judges men by their worth and ability. He has lived in Newton since 1861 and has always kept in his employee some colored man, this showing that he has a friendly feeling to the race. Remember the date, April 2, 1912. Chance for Negro Boys to Get Busy. The boys who entered the county growing contest marginated last year to give a free trip to Washington City to the boy raising the largest quantity per acre, enjoyed their trip last week. The number of bushels per acre produced by the labor of some of those kids should make some older farmers blush for shame. The star of the 20 boy was Bennie Benson, 60 years old and from Mississippi, who rated 229 bushels of corn on one acre. Another Mississippi boy rated 225 bushels. The Virginia boy had lot to his credit, and the Alabama youngster rated 200 at a cost of $6 cents per bushel. Oklahoma's dry season cut its representation down to 100. Why not have the negro boys of Oklahoma learn the methods pursued and thus show their intellect? The American. Columbia's Nugun Gardner. In the northwest part of Columbia on Switzler avenue lives Henry Kirklin, a negro truck gardener, who has come near to solving the secrets of successful scientific farming than any one else with as limited opportunity as he has had. He has a truck farm of about three and one-half acres; and it is all paid for. He runs two wagons; and they, too, are all paid for. In fact, everything that Kirklin has is paid for. But things were not always as prosperous for Kirklin. The story of his success is one of hard work such as few have gone through. He was born and reared six miles north of Columbia. When 14 years old he started working for J. B. Douglas, who had a forty-acre nursery north of town, for 30 cents a day. His mother still boarded and clothed him. Mr. Douglas liked him so well that he offered him 40 cents a day if he would stay another year. He stayed several more years, until at the end of the sixth year he was doing a man's work and receiving one dollar a day for it. Then in 1881 Kirklin secured employment from the University of Missouri under S. M. Tracey, who had charge of the department of horticulture, then in Switzler Hall. Here Kirklin did all the grafting and the charge of the field work and the green house. Because the state would not raise his wages he quit in 1884. He then determined to go into business for himself. He had a small lot of about 60 by 100 feet—a part of the place he now la—for three years he plodded a small way, delivered it, priced of the soil to the humbla in a la- day he uses two his grounds. Kirklin has exhibited at a number of workshops and has taken the big prize on several occasions. At the Jamestown Exposition in 1907 he won the gold medal for his exhibits. He again exhibited at the "Show-Me" Congress at Moberly in 1910. He sent devon just vegetables to this show. They are now in the Horticultural Building And Kirklin is a good lecturer, too. Recently T C Wilson, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, sent him to Dalton to lecture to the Negro Agricultural Institute. He illustrated his lecture on "scientific farming" original drawings. After Kirklin had told a visitor at his Columbia home of his achievements and the trials and troubles he went through, he showed some of his exhibits. One was a picture of strawberries which measured fourteen berries to the quart. Then there were tomatoes, Chinese peppers and many other interesting specimens preserved in fluid. The largest yield of strawberries he ever had was in 1904; in that year three-fourths of an acre yielded more than 4,000 quarts. Kirklin then insisted that he show the visitors around a bit. He told of his row of strawberries, of how he alternates and fertilizes his crops every third year, how several civil engineers built him a watering system from asmall lake on his place, how he toiled until 2 o'clock many a night last summer carrying water to his crops, how he made all his own berry boxes and how he loaded his wagon each night for the market. "You certainly have a wonderful little place here," remarked the visitor. "Well, it's not as nice as I hope to have it some day, and besides it's winter time. Come around and see me just before school is out and I will give you one of the best treats of your life. Glad I met you. Goodbye," and Kiklin went back to his work.—The Professional World. AICHISON NEWS The Coronation Air Club meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. J. C. George. A large number of the membership were present and a good meeting was held. The hostess assisted by Mrs. George served ice cream and assorted cake. Tuesday with Mrs. Chas Bowen. Mrs. Hawey Potter is ill at her home on Riley street. Rev. Barker has been assisting Rev. W T. Biggets in his series of meetings at Campbell chapel church. Sunday was quarterly meeting at Campbell chapel in spite of the cold weather the meetings were largely attended. Presiding Elder King assisted with the services. in frontion minging churchchurch the the this is the way the man in Mr. Fred Potter, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. avvy Potter, is a young man that much credit is due for his age. He is a ready worker and a save one. He owns valuable fats and rents them out as he is yet traveling in the lonesome. He recently purchased a cottage at 712 Washington street. The Sunflower art club met Monday with Mrs. John Kelley on Second street. Only three members were absent from the meeting. Mrs. Gaines of Muskogee was a visitor the hostess assisted by Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Patre Allon served a tempting lunchoon. The club abjourned to meet next week with Mrs. Blake on Division street. Mrs. Jackson was hostess for the social club Friday afternoon at home on South Sixth Street. Various games and music were the chief amusements. After business a dandy loungeon was served. The Elizabeth court was organized recently at K T. hall. The officers are: Mrs. Stanton Waters, M. A. M. Mrs. James Evans, treasurer; Candelle Briggs, secretary; Mrs. I. T. Johnson and Mrs. O. Birch, guards and Mrs. John Ewing. The society began with 19 members and is doing nicely. The entertainment given at the high school auditorium by the Pallas literary club was a grand success. The program was composed of selections from Mrs. W. E. Gray and from Mr. J. Mord Allen, of Topeka; solos by Mrs. John Wright of Topeka; two chorus by the Lincoln school pupils and a quartette by the Pallasec club. Each one proved he had been well practiced for the evening. Mrs. Wright and Mr. Allen in turn kept the large audience spell bound during the evening. Mrs. Wright has one of the sweetest voices in the state and sings with perfect ease. Mr. Allen, the humorist, is clever in every way. The two will be welcomed in the city any time. A small reception by the members only given for Mrs. Wright and Mr. J. Mord Allin, in the beautiful reception room of the high school after the entertainment. A long table decorated in the club colors and effectively lighted with corresponding colors was used for the icees. The icees were served by Julia Jones and Beatrice Martin, two pretty little girls dressed in dainty white dresses. The other out of town guests were; Mr. and Mrs. C. Mays, of Utah; Mrs. Ray of Topeka; Mrs. Iz'n'a Linnington, of Oak Mills. Many beautiful reception dresses were worn which added to the beauty of the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. C. Mays, of Utah, are the home guests of their sister, Mrs. Stanton Watts, an indulgent stay. Mr. Win Watts is all at his home. Miss Izma Lannington, of Oak Mill, visited in the city the past week. Miss Ithal Penn, who has opened a studio over Rutina's drug store, is taking good. She has many new students and is a satisfactory music teacher. Although she is far advanced in music she is yet under the best music instructor in the city and expects to complete her course this spring. Mrs. Gilbert Moore is improving from her recent illness. Mrs. Charles Potter served a course dinner Sunday, complimentary to her husband's birthday. Miss Lallian Cunningham is all at her home on Cue street. Mr. J. Mord Allen was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jerre Taylor last week. Mr. Fred Ross is a very brave young man to make such an adventure this cold weather. The collector will call on those in debt to this paper on or about the first of Match. Please be ready. FORT SCOTT, KANSAS. Miss Ethel Joyner, of Topeka, is in the city, th guest of relatives and friends. Miss Myrtle Terry spent the week in Kansas City, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Witherpoon. Wednesday evening at their home on 711 Butte street occurred the wedding of Miss Myrtle King to Mr. Anthony Sylvester. The wedding came as a surprise to their many friends who wish them much joy and happiness. They are at home to their friends in their cottage which the groom has fitted up and at which the wedding occurred. The series of meetings which have been held at the A. M. E. church conducted by Rev. Brown, for the past four weeks closed Sunday. Special services were held during the day and were largely attended. Thirty persons were converted during the meeting. The Stewartess board of Wayman mt last week at the home of Mrs. Terry Monday afternoon. A light luncheon was served Miss Mattie Hicks, of Western university was in the city for a few days last week visiting friends and relatives. MAPLE HILL There was a blizzard here Saturday and Sunday and it is still cold. At the "I'm Social" given by the Christian church Saturday evening they realized $15. Mrs. Jennings and daughter of Tupala were the guests of George Stanley and family Sunday. The party given by Mrs. William Davis Sunday afternoon for her little son, Charley, who was a year old, was well attended by the little ones. A nice lunch was served and the little ones spent the afternoon playing. Miss Emma Stanley who spent most of the winter in Topeka, came home Monday afternoon. Miss Helm gave a surprise party on her son, George, Feb. 1. He was 11 years old. Everyone reported a nice time. HUTCHINSON, KANS. The quarterly meeting of the A. M. E. church was a grand success. Total raised that day was $36 60. The Mite Missionary society was organized at the A. M. E. church Monday afternoon. Grand chancellor J. E. Lewis of the state of Kansas was in the city on business Monday. We are sorry to know that J. W. Thomas the wealthiest Negro farmer is selling his farm, having purchased one in Meade county. However, his family will remain in Hutchinson. E. I. Jackson is selling out, preparatory to moving to Nebraska where he will make his future home. Attorney S. G. Toles is contemplating floating in Hutchinson. Attorney Toole is now located at Coffeyville. Mr. Lee McCalop, a brilliant young man of Hutchinson, and Mr. Frank Harris, an older citizen are opening a first class cafe. All patronage will be highly appreciated. Hutchinson will enjoy the treat of the season February 15. A tambourine drill executed by twelve young girls will be given in Broaddus hall. All are cordially invited to attend. The Handy Literary society, of Hutchinson is the strongest society of its kind ever organized in the west. Having for its president Mr. L. J. Perkins a young man of rare literary attainments we hope to achieve greater success. Quarterly meeting next Sunday at the C. M. E. church. The presiding elder, J. S. Payne and his wife will leave for Pratt Pilday. GUTHRIE, OKLA. Dr. H. W. Conrad made professional visits to Meridian and Langston University, last week. Mr. McConnell, of Atchison, Kansas, was in the city Saturday enroute to Langston. Professors Johnson, Hudson and Sneed, were Guthre visitors Saturday. Mrs. Tom Brooks and little son of Meridian transacted business here Monday. Mr. S. G. Garrett of 321 E. Vilas is on the sick list. Mrs. Sarah Whitley-Moore has been added to the Douglas county school force and Mrs. G. W. Carry to Lincoln school. Mrs. E. D. Jefferson, of Muskogee, and G. M. of the Oklahoma G. U. O. of O. P. visited the local lodge here Sunday and Monday. Prof. Daniel Johnson, of Boley, gave a recital at the A. M. E. church Friday night, assisted by Miss Beatrice Morlow. Mrs. L. A. Gibbs entertained the Wednesday Afternoon Embroidery club last week, and Miss Margaret Douglas will entertain them this week. CHANUTE. KAN. Mrs. Fred Hall and her two children are here from Kansas City. They moved from Chanute about two months ago. Mrs. Hilll's husband died soon after moving there, and her mother, Mrs. S. L. Peterson, died the last of January. Mrs. Bucah Gaston and Mrs. L. McCullough spent a day last week at Erie, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. Williams. Mrs. P. Talley has returned from a visit at Lexington, Mo. Revival services have started at the A. M. E. church. The Sewing Circle met last week with Mrs. Greene Gaston on North Central street. Mr. Burton of Emporia is here teaching dancing. Friends in Chanute are glad to hear of their former acquaintance, Mr. Froy Richie, who was recently married in Topeka. Mrs. Lesha Campbell of Ft. Scott, Kansas, who has been visiting her uncle, Mr. W. Hale, has returned home. Mrs. Lewis McCullough is back home again. Mrs. Harry Newton, Mrs. Hattie Brown and Mr. Milton Gaston are on the sick list. The Old Time Fiddlers' contest under the auspices of the Business Men's club January 30 was a success. Several colored gentlemen made a hit with the crowd. Mr. Washington, Fred Goodseal, Walter Peterson and Jerry Campbell did some good quartette work. They received a cake and box of cigars. Joe Odair received a sweater for his French harp solos. Louis V's'tors to Topeka Will Find Oliver's A pleasant place to spend sociable afternoon. Imported Cigars, MISSOURI PACIFIC IRON MOUNTAIN Through Train Service Between Topeka and Fort Scott, Pittsburg, Carthage, Webb City and Joplin. TICKET AGENT PRINTING 87 McCullough and W. Washington received a prize for their guitar and mandolins. These are some of Chanute's talent. Tasker Has Made Good. The only man in Shawnee county without opposition at the Republican primaries next August except the district court judges and county treasurer is a soldier who did great work for his country in the Spanish-American war with the Twenty-first Kansas and thence with the Fourteenth [Picture of a man in a suit and tie]. He sealed the wall of China and made the Celestians he good. His friends are legion, and the Democrats will hardly enter a candidate against him. He is T. R. Tasker, register of deeds. AMERICAN SOCIAL ETHICS. (Continued from Page L.) The question will come to us first in its physical aspect, for it is a serious thought but abundantly true, thing that the average man or woman of us will do for the next generation is to become the parents of another human being. We may be sadly disappointed as to our own achievements, we may be forced to confess that we amount to but little in the world, but the hope remains that all that is good in us may blossom into effective achievements in our children or in our children's children. He who recognizes the real significance of parenthood, with this new emphasis on transmitting the chain of life, will find his interest aroused in various social questions, for first of all he will be profoundly concerned in the question of personal and social purity, for whatever may be the facts through personal impurity, however much or little of the taint may be directly transmissible, there are unquestionably, physical reasons enough to constrain any right thinking man or woman to fight for purity in the life long struggle between love and lust for it is indeed an irrepressible conflict, and whenever lust reigns true love to the same extent is impossible It is also true that every man and every woman must at some time pay the price of corruption, be it of the body or of soul, for they will either miss the final experiences of affection on they will expiate it in sorrow and shame, in anxiety concerning their own offspring. Therefore, let us each here and now highly resolve that for the sake of the peace of our own souls, for the sake of the safety of our every home, and for the sake of the security of the generation yet unbound purity shall prevail in all our hearts and throughout all our world. GASTON BOYD, M. D. Newton, Kansas Candidate for City Commissioner, Election April 12, 1912. JOHN EARLY, For City Commissioner, Newton, Kansas Election, April 2 '12. VOTE FOR Present Incumbent A. E. HURFORD. For City Commissioner Newton, Kansas. Election April 2, 1912. A. E. HURFORD. Convenience, Economy? Just as the click of the reaper means bread, the tick of the clock means time and the purr of sweing machine means clothes, so the ring of the Bell Telephone means unity and organization. A BELL TELEPHONE not only insures perfect local service but also Long Distance service which is invaluable. THE MISSOURI AND KANSAS TELEEHONE CO. The Bell Telephone Remember one in your home is worth two at your Neighbor's. MISSOURI AND KANSAS TELEPHONE COMPANY DCA LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE BELL SYSTEM AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELIGRAPH CO. SCHILLER CUTS PRICE OF BEER THE WEALTHY WHISKEY WHOLESALERS BUY BREWERY OUTPUT AND ENGAGE BREWERY TRUST IN BEER WAR KANSAS CITY, MO. - June, 1911. With an the beer season just opening comes the sensational news that Schiller Bros., the wealthy whiskey wholesalers of this city, 24 have secured control of the brewery output and are cutting prices in order an bloom business and fight the beer trust. Schiller' Bros. do a mail order whiskey business and are therefore well equipped to handle mail orders for beer. They should get most of this business as it is believed their prices cannot be met by the trust. It is alleged that members of the trust are in an ironclad agreement to maintain present high prices. Schiller Bros. promise on the other hand to keep their cut prices in force all summer. Schiller Bros. give handsome and valuable premiums to customers free of all charge. These premiums range from small articles like a fishing reel, to large ones like a piano. A catalog describing and illustrating over a thousand of these premiums will be sent free on request. Such low prices as 12 pints for $1.00; 24 pints for $1.90; 36 pints for $2.70; 64 pints for $4.25 and 120 pints for $7.90 are announced by Schiller Brothers. 1 super means bread, that so the ring of the Bolt only insures perf I Have You is worth two at you MISSOURIAN TELEEH (First published January 19, 1912, in (First published January 19, 1912, in the Topeka Plaindealer.) In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas: No. 27149. Hannah E. Davis, Plaintiff, vs. Martha Collins, Defendant. PUBLICATION NOTICE. State of Kansas, County of Shawnee, ss: The State of Kansas to Martha Collins, defendant above named, greeting: You are hereby notified that the above named plaintiff did, on January 16th, 1912, file her petition asking that her title in and to lots 30 and 32 on West 8th Ave., and 79 on East 10th Ave., Topeka, Kansas, be quieted as to you and that you be barred from claiming or attempting to claim any right, title or interest in or to said premises; and you are further notified that unless you appear and answer said petition of the plaintiff filed herein on or before the 6th day of March, A. D. 1912, that the allegations of said petition will be taken as true, and judgment rendered accordingly against you and in favor of said plaintiff forever barring you from claiming or attempting to claim any right in or to said described premises adverse to the plaintiff. Hereof take due notice. ARTHUR J. BOLINGER, Attorney for Plaintiff Attest: R. L. THOMAS, (Seal) Clerk District Court By Jessie M. Curtis, Oputy. (First published in the Topeka Plain dealer, January 19, 1912) PUBLICATION NOICE. Cora E. Pendry will take notice that she has been sued by her husband, H. H. Pendry, case No. 27061, in the District Court of Shawnee County, State of Kansas, for an absolute divorce, and that she must answer his petition on file in said court and cause on or before the 29th day of February, 1912, or said petition will be taken as true, and judgment rendered accordingly, divorcing plaintiff from the defendant, and requiring defendant to take her maiden name. H. P PENDRY. Fisher & Lock, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attest: R. L. THOMAS. (Seal) Clerk District Court. Dated January 11, 1912. the tick of the clock Bell Telephone means fect local service bu ou a Bell ur Neighbor's. AND KA ONE CO. COLOR PREJUDICE CAUSES SUICIDES Pretty Michigan Colored Girl Finds Struggle Unbearable and Ends all by Her Own Hand. The sad case of Miss Dena Brooks, a young colored girl of Jackson, Miss, is the first case on record where the damnable color prejudice had drove one to commit suicide. Miss Brooks dropped dead from the effect of poison in a local drug store a short time ago. A letter left by the young woman, who was well educated and well dressed, wrote: "Have no money, and O! Anna, you don't know what it means for darkness to close down over the city and you have no place to lay your head. They have ordered me out of the store where I just went to get warm. They also told me to get out of the public library, Michigan Central depot and the M. U. R. waiting room." The letter continues: "Now remember, dearest, I just went into those places to get warm; it seemed as if my very blood was ice. I presume I looked so fortune that is why they put me out." The letter goes on to tell that she had been out of work for a long time and that no one would have her in Jackson because he was a colored girl. She also told how she enjoyed herself in the public library and how she enjoyed reading Booker T. Washington's books. She also said that she intended to take her life. Miss Brooks was highly educated and her education was obtained in a college right along with white students, and she graduated at the head of her class with the highest honors, but as soon as she had obtained her education and began to look about for something to do in keeping with it she soon found out that none of the business concerns would give her employment because she was colored. After going from place to place in search of work, only to be refused, and that not always in a respectable manner, the poor girl became discouraged, and after writing the above letter to her sister, she swallowed the fatal dose of poison and bid farewell to this world. Oh, Lord! when will the time come when fitness and not color will be the standard? The Bell Telephone (First published in the Topeka Plain-dealer, January 12, 1912.) 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LAWRENCE (Copyright, D.L. by An Gation, WILLIAM WEDDERS was the author of the chapter in 1715 the doctor in Wesley of the house He Abraham Iton was a who met Jacob a to see that he had given the wound, is He is to meet a trustor of for himals of wars was to quarrel the oathstright New York Abrham Ili who met him had given wound, to him He is in use a master of for him the city hostry York. before the final bill of and the sum in it I find to the work of a person to turn to share and it in part on one or two remember the en- sures of the responsibility for will deter bekes it with a life attack on the post it it almost stop it it was unmanaged in 'Some time April, 1951, composed me cuttled 'Her had been sat occasionally This song w my meeting moment affec dent, and in my life. W the newspaper Lincoln Inten tate of 'Our Milwaukee Bakery 121 W. 61st St. ed that it would be particularly fitting to have more reliable men on the acts and Opposed approving it. "I hired a mallet when Miss Kren was leading part in the play, heard a herald of the song the volunteered to company. It was finally decided that the song be given the first and second acts. "On the night of the performance presidential box, which under ordinary conditions was used as two sparse stalls, was thrown open to one compartment and amothered in the national colors. Before going to the music room stepped next door to a saloon frequented by actors and employees of the theatre. When I entered the very first first prison I met was John Wilkes Booth. e I was standing at the bar in his shirt sleeves, his cost shirt over one arm and his hat in his hand. There were several men with him, and they were laughing and joking. When Booth saw me he cried, "Hello, Billy, come and have a drink with me." "We didn't forget all during the conversation one of the party laughingly remanded the Booth would never be great to his father. I remember brr seeing an inscrutable smile fit across his face, as I retired. When I leave the stake for final I will be the most famous man in America. The statement had no satisfaction at the time, but I remembered it later. After the start and before the certain went up for the play, I noticed Booth in the rear learning AN appalled the orchestra chairs. The first art had not progressed very far whn I hard cheering. I knew what that meant and gave the sign to Narrowly Escaped Death From Dagger Wielded by Booth as He Escaped Across Stage was lots of excitement and men and women stood up and cheered for the resident. As the oath climbed the stairs to the hallway the oathist increased and he bowed twice to the audience. He then paused in the unmanned on trine and took a seat a moment later in the left hand corner of the box At the end of the first act, when my friend is to be sung, I was called to to sing tales by the stage man- ner I. I Wit it, and was so questioned to play my accent must, is Miss Bee was not need to assist in my song but probably would be at the end of the second act. Toward the end of the second act I saw Booth in the balony, apportioned ply inter- ested in the play When the second and was over I was informed again through the speaking tube that Miss Kearne was not ready to do her part in the song. I feeling vexed at this, I went behind the scenes to find out why the extra feature had been slighted. To reach the edge I had to take an underground passage to a stairway in the rear of the building. I found Mr. THE EXTRA IN FORD'S LINCOLN WAS ASSASSINATED. Wright in one of the wings with several members of the company about him and I approuved in scene while Mahdol Spangler got in my way, and as I asked him to move he turned for me suddenly and suarled. 'What do you want here?' "I was taken aback at this sudden display of temper, as I had always found him a quiet and altogether inoffensive sort of man. I told him I was not there on any business that concerned him and again asked him to move. He stepped to one side reluctantly as I advanced to the man's side and before I said how frightened the song I pulled the on the brick wall which contained all the guilds in arm against without my Keeno trying so once that extra I been le af archus lead ing to the "Should I live a thousand years I shall never forget that ten seconds of my life that was spent between Booth and his liberty. His eyes seemed starting from theirockets in his left hand was a long dagger, while with his right he seemed to be balancing himself against the brick wall. Fielding the unders I saw the iron bar used to control the lights living on the floor. He glared at me like a wild bird for a second or two and then with lowered head and with armpits he made a rush at me "Let me press" he shouted. "Let me pass" and with the dagger made a desperate bunge at me, the sharp blade tipping through the collar of my coat, puncturing my undergarments and in blistering a flesh wound in my neck about six inches long. This blow sent me sprinting on the floor, and he made a dash for the large door, through which I caught a glimpse of a horse's head and a young fellow I known as I cannot John holding it by the bridge the next thru' I knew a detective named I Stewart I am over me and disappeted out the stage door only a few seconds after Booth had closed it. Hurty Hawk and several members of the company went stumbling over me in a tush to get to their dressing rooms. I couldn't date the picked me up, and I asked him what had happened. He didn't answer, but led me to the stage which was now crowded with people, and pointing to the president's box said, "Look there, look there" I looked and saw I braod, with his head resting on the back of his chair, apparently dead. His wife was bathing his face with her handkerchief and Miss Laura Keene stood near with a pitcher in hot hand. "The detective kissed in my ear, 'The president is dying shot by an asassin' "The horror and the pity of it all rushed upon me like a great black cloud and I wiped. I recovered myself and told the detective to take me to police headquarters, as I had important information. "The most sorrowful sight I ever behold was when the president was carried up the aisle that only a short time before he had walked down smiling and bowing. The audience that had cheered was now crying; the handkerchiefs that had waved enthusiastically were now wet with tears. "The president was taken to Mr Peterson's house, opposite the theater, and put to bed in a room occupied by John Matthews, a number of Miss Keene's company, where he died at 7:30 the next morning. "When I reached the street with the detective there was a great mob in front of the theater, and as they caught sight of us there were cries of 'Kall him! Lynch him! Hang him!' and the threats were nearly carried out before it was made known that I was not the man who had killed the president. When we arrived at police headquarters I was taken before Mayor Wallock of Washington, who questioned me closely and to whom I told my story. "My wound was examined and attended to, and after I had given all my information I could Mayor Walsh took me I would be detained overnight, but to go home in the morning obtained whybore, because if Booth had Washington they would en deaver to put me out of the way if they thought I had any valuable information. All knew was a great number of con- spirators arrested and I was summoned to appear at the trial, which was held in the arsenal in the navy yard. Spright, the police shifter, was sent towed to serve a term at Dry Tortuga. After serving his time he be returned to the house in Brooklyn, where he built him, the shifter, died he was interviewed by a reporter on the staff of the Eagle. He stated them, he was sably saved. He lives in the audience by applauding him, and asking him to move the governor, from the governor, as his part in the plot, was to turn off all the lights in front of the stage when he heard the 'fight' that, 'When I pulled the cover over the governor Spangler did not have time to get back and turn the lights on before, Booth's pistol was fired, Booth's hands, wild dash to, escape, meeting that, the lights were still on in the auditorium, must have tried to turn the gun of himself and in his ex-citement wrenched the lever from its place, and it struck the wall in falling to the floor. Mr Withhels carried a scar on his neck about four inches long as a reminder of his encounter with Booth. The cont. that he wore on that, night has been promised to the government on his death. There is not much of the garment left now, as it has been much hacked by reild seekers. MR. BRYAN'S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN'S ORATORY. In analyzing Lincoln's character this as a speaker one is impressed with the completeness of his equipment. He possessed the two th that are absolutely essential to two speaking—namely, information carnestness. If one can be calledquent who knows what he is talkl about and means what he says—andknow of no better definition—Lincoln sometimes wore eloguent. he had a really excellent every foot of the ground and was afraid of pitfall or ambush. And what was equally important, he spoke from his own heart to the hearts of those who ABRAHAM LINCOLN SOME lofty heights there are That pierce the azure skies; Some peaks so tall, so grand. They to the heavens rise; Some lifted lands that seem Scarce of the earth, so high, Where floating ships of air The fleecy cloud fleets-lie. ABOVE the town are raised, Into the upper air, Some spires, like fingers set To point a pathway there, And, towering, stand some lives Above the level line, Grand pinnacles that stretch Toward the life divine. HIGH, high, among Brave, loyal, noble Our Lincoln-dear the A mighty tower of He was a son of Toil And yet her devo His life he gave to me Her worthy child HIGH, high, among the great, Brave, loyal, noble, grand. Our Lincoln-dear the name-- A mighty tower doth stand. He was a son of Toil And yet her devotee. His life he gave to make Her worthy children free. LIKE one who to mankind Came in the long ago. He dwelt and suffered with The humble and the low. Their fears he knew, their woes. No pangs that they had known But he had felt them too. Their sorrows were his own. 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Some Race Some Race Notes cotton to the acre; the Hites prolific producet 1,400 pounds of seed cotton o the acre; Lok' big boll 1,500 pounds of sece cotton to the acre; Dillon will resistant, 1,350 pounds of sed cotton o the acre; the Bates, 1,750 pounds of seed cotton to the acre; Latent's improved, 1,5p05ousdrma Latent' improved 1,550 pounds of sed cotton to the acre; Morse's improved, 1,525 pounds of the seed cotton to the acre. "Bank Account," 1,20) pounds of seed cotton to the acre. Among different varieties of cotton mentioned, the Bates is the most favored, the yield of lint was 41 per cent. The money-maker made the largest amount of seed cotton but the lint was only 34 per cent. The Russell big boll makes the finest lint of any of the short staple cotton. The Columbia long staple was planted near the Experiment Station, Junel, after oats, a little more than two acres was planted and the amount of seed, cotton gathered from the same was 1,524 pounds, lint cotton 510 pounds. The amount paid for the lint was $73.50. The seed are being sold for $150 per bushel which will am- A ```markdown ``` # Ups and downs of the Rac All Sections of the Country Pictured by Other Pens-A Graphic Description of the Negro's Prosperity and Hardships. "Many different varieties of cotton and corn were planted on a farm at Horatio, N. C., to determine which would make the best yield. The several plots were planted in one old as to give ach about the same irrades of land. All of the cotton plots were planted at the same time with the same amount and kind of fertilizers, and worked with the same implements and the same way. The plots were all planted April 10. The soil was dark grey. The first picking was August 21, the second was September 28, third was November 15. The different varieties were as follows the Moneymaker, produced 1800 pounds of seed cotton to the acre; the 图 The 50th anniversary of our company was celebrated by erecting the most modern safe factory in the world. Wide awake man who received our special selling in investment, rendered it necessary to double our output. We are opening many thousands of shares enlarging our sales and organization, but to earn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ash for Catalogue 18T. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. 1 n are raised. per air. affingers set pathway there. and some lives vel line. that stretch life divine. 1234567890 mankind ago. ed with the low. their woes. they had known too. ere his own. A. B. A. ount to about $45.60, making a total of $118.50 for the one big hale of long staple cotton and seed. It would be a good idea if the farmers plant a portion of their farms with the good varieties of good long staple cotton. There are factories in South Carolina that no other cotton but the long staple, and whenever the South Carolina farmers cannot supply the demands, it is ordered from other places. Cotton coming in from foreign markets is very likely to bring pests into the state that would be very injurious to our cotton crops, such as boll weevil and diseases that have been bent out of the state thus far. The names of the different varieties of corn were: Dr. Simms, Marlboro prolific, Strawberry, Hudson, Aldrich Perfection, Sanders' Improved, Jerry Moore and Charlie Sanders. The number of bushels made per acre by each were as follows: Dr. Sims, 45 bushels. Marlboro prolific, 49 bushels. Huson, 49 bushels. Aldrich Perfection, 40 1-2 bushels. Sander's improved, 49 1-2 bushels. Charlie Sanders, 48 1-2 bushels. Jerry Moore 70 bushels. The hudson variety is not a good seed for this section of the state, the weevils were in abundance on this plot. It is an early field variety, having matured nearly two weeks earlier than the other varieties. The Jerry Moore variety proved to be much heavier than the other, while Dr. Sima was more prolific. Charley Sanders variety, has a great deal of nutrition, it will not decay or rot as easy as the other varieties, and the corn weevils do not affect it as much. The Experiment Station will be planted in the same plot this year with reference to the use of fertilizer.—Yours truly, R. W. Westberry, Sumter County Agricultural Agent, Sumter, S. C.—The D. fender. K. C. FRENCH Cleaners & Dyers All Kinds of Cleaning Pressing and Dying for Ladies and Gentlemen ... Mrs. Effie Arnett Ind, 'Phone 1005